Biographical sketch of Fletcher Cowherd, president of the Fletcher Cowherd Company in the Dierks Building. He was born in 1859 in Lafayette County, Missouri, becoming a lawyer in Kansas City in 1879 and...

This book contains one page personal accounts of the lives of numerous women from the Kansas City metro area, as well as their photograph. Includes Edna E. Perry, owner/founder of Edna E. Perry Real Estate...

Photo and bio of Frank Baird (1838-1895), a lawyer and leading real estate businessman of Kansas City starting in 1865 and especially during the "boom" of the 1880s, describing his many honors by local...

Portrait and biograhical sketch of John Byers, a realtor and banker from Virginia. He moved to several places before arriving in Kansas City in 1870 associated with the Mechanics' Bank, then the Hall &...

Portrait and biographical sketch of Abiather Chadwick, "one of the best known and most widely respected men connected with Kansas City's real estate interest," originally from New York, working "in the...

Biographical sketch of Ermine Case (1841-1886), a law partner of Philip S. Brown, Sr., in Kasnas City, starting after the Civil War. He was also involved in real estate, "largely interested in the erection...

Portrait and biographical sketch of Joseph Bauerlein, owner of his own real estate business in Kansas City starting in about 1885, previously an apprentice "at the trade of jeweler and watch-maker" and...

Description of Charles Ferree, or C. M. Ferree, a realtor in the Sheidley Building, with Judge McCrary "now platting off [in 1886] an addition of forty acres, off Blue Avenue, between Twelfth and Fifteenth...

Portraits and biographical sketches of Gus Marty and Washington Arnold, partners of Marty, Arnold & Company, stock brokers and realtors. Description of Marty as born in Wisconsin in 1860 and coming to...